I don't have mixed feelings about Halloween. I am most definitely not a fan. No, there wasn't any traumatic childhood incident or super scary haunting memory. I just don't get into the costume thing. I'm not creative enough to come up with cool costumes year after year, and I always feel like it's a competition ... a competition I always lose. I like watching scary movies, going to corn mazes and eating tons of candy, but as far the actual dress-up and trick or treat part, count me out. Thankfully, Jordan feels the same way! However, we understand that being parents means sometimes embracing things we used to find horrifying, like wiping away snot with your bare fingers. So Happy Halloween!!
Thankfully, this year I didn't have to put too much thought into costumes. A friend gave us a Nemo costume for Madison last summer and another friend suggested that Jordan and I go as fishermen since we spend all our time chasing the cute girl! So that's what we did. Our ward had a trunk-or-treat, which is what we have pictures of, but we also took Maddie out trick-or-treating on Halloween night, which she LOVED! She got really into knocking on the doors and grabbing handfuls of candy. Of course everyone let her have as much as she wanted cause she's too cute to resist :) We also took Maddie took to a pumpkin patch to pick out her first pumpkin and then had a couple friends over to carve one night, so these pictures are really of all our Halloween festivities. Just a warning, though. She's still into that too-busy-for-the-camera stage so get ready for lots of blank stares or pictures of the back of her head. She smiles, I swear. Just not when I'm taking her picture!
Searching for the perfect pumpkin at the pumpkin patch
Doesn't everyone use their pumpkins as chairs?
Found it!!
We're starting her young - made her pay for it herself!
Being the smart parents that we are, we stripped her to her diaper for the pumpkin gutting
She loved getting in there with her spoon and her hands to dig out the guts
She and Dad make a good team! (so turns out I didn't get a picture of the finished product ... silly me)
Our fishy family at the Trunk or Treat
She actually really liked her costume, except for the hat part. I tried it on her a couple weeks before Halloween and from then on she would drag it out whenever she could and insist on wearing it around the house
I think I should let her wear it to her next doctor's appointment ... maybe I can trick him into thinking she's gained a few pounds!
The end. What? Were you expecting some ultimately adorable Gerber baby smiling picture at the end? In my dreams!! Maybe next year :)
